anonymopotamus
anonymopotamus t1_j2desax wrote
Reply to comment by AllergicToStabWounds in ELI5: How did we realise the mind is in the brain? by theembryo
Ancient Greeks thought that thinking was in the heart, Plato was an early proponent of placing it in the head (in the Timaeus). Before then people in the region would have answered the same way as you, but would have pointed to the heart.
anonymopotamus t1_j2f96y3 wrote
Reply to comment by tommytraddles in ELI5: How did we realise the mind is in the brain? by theembryo
Nope.
What is obvious to you isn't obvious to everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiocentric_hypothesis